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Introducing sidebar search in Microsoft Edge
mayusuf I really hate this Bing option. I don't care if Bing is good. I don't care about the quality of Bing search engine. What I am specifically looking for is a way to disable this annoying crappy menu.
Instead of providing choice and honesty, the microsoft edge engineering team specifically chose to compromise ethics in order to push for a microsoft product - literally the opposite of why chromium was created in the first place.
The reason the menu exists is to intentionally confuse users and increase bing clicks.
The features was specifically designed to maximize annoyance and confusion.
This went so far as the microsoft team running focus groups studies to see how users would perceive the feature, and they crafted that context menu in a way that in all possible situations the "search bing in the sidebar" menu would be read and perceived first.
I think more effort was spent in creating this feature to be as annoying and disgusting as the effect that it causes on you.
I really feel like a hostage because of this psychological manipulation simply because I know how this feature was designed and the tactics used.
And what is worse, to silence all complaints, the Microsoft edge community managers instead of reporting comments, they create fake users giving positive comments in order to manipulate community members into submission.